What would YOU do? (Homelessness)

This is another one of those issues that proven to be an easy political ping pong ball with no real AND LASTING solutions. I am at a point right now where every time I hear a politician exclaim that he/she is going to end homelessness, I just want to gag. Why? Because just about every [...]

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Peter William Cassey and the Phoenixonian Institute - some history

“Aware of the desire of black Californians for education, Cassey founded the Phoenixonian Institute in San Jose in 1861 (also known as St. Philip’s Mission School for Negroes). At a time when no other California high school, public or private, was open to African American students, and few secondary schools were established to train white [...]

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Caribbean migration into the U.S. - some history

(inmotionaame.org) The significant growth of the Caribbean community in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century is easily explained by the increasing economic hardship and disenchantment in the British West Indies and the simultaneous expansion of the U.S. economy with its relatively high wages and growing employment opportunities.
The British Caribbean experienced a [...]

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